The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-12
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/ VA EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.
Tho Closing Hours of tho General Confer
enee In Washington City. 1G5
Spcetd! Correpondene: Of the Initlligenctr. 4.
| WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. l0.-Tho i'm
preston dsopened as the Conference pro
ceedsd that It was, in all respects, one O.
tho most important religious gatherings o.
the decade. No Evangelical Church wat
without Ito representatives, and oil Of the
churches sent some OF their ablest men,
IN tho platform bighopn claiming Apos.
tollc succession Sjoetled bishops whom
they. would not admit to be such, and mon
Of other denominations fully as worthy 81
the EpiRcopste as any to whom this high
dignity attached, while on the floor were
70 be sssn, at times, q full thousand Of
the very flower OF all the Ecclesiast;csl
circ!es In the nation. One could tell at a
glance that It wea body Astounding in
distinguished men, for whoteyor there
may bs, or may not be, In q name, there
is surely agreat deal In looks, and II the
clerical Gsrb was not as conspicuous as
one might havs expected, II was easy to
discover III tho features OF tho deleeates
both their high calling md thoir exalted
intellectual and moral character.
CAPITAL AND LABOR, =,
The papers and speeches wsro insvita-
bly, Of the drst order Of merit. Each spoke
upon his pct theme, and nearly all who
TOOK part were msn Of national repute.
Candor conpels the admission, too, that
the speakers, with few exceptions, carried
the interest and awakened tho enthusiasm
OF tho crest ardienceo. Naturally some
STRIKING contsast8 were presented. To
heer President McOoah, wrink!ed, feeble.
and fully ripe In both yeara and scholar.
ship, but ntill an intellectual giant, and
almoat . trGas1gured oracle. was d rare
treat. His them0 waa "The Relation OF
the Ohurch TO Capital and Labor" and
his Chief points were that the church and
mo ministry must got naarer to the
msssss, and, al hs did when in the pastor.
ate thirty-tlvs years ago, must got nearer
TO them by going after them and preach
Ing tho Gospel, Paul liko, from house to
house. And il this was treat, no leps 40
was the laulLless epeech OF vigorous man.
mood which followed iona of tbs very best
the conisrence listened toy from Hon. Seth
Low, OF Brooklyn, who, while taking a
hopeful view OF tho relations batween
capital and labor, n!ill held that the church
had a great duty in tho promises, and Was
not backward in suggea!lons as to how no.
high mission might bo fulfilled.
sha mus! see to 1t, first, thst The cap;tsl-
lsta IN her own fold did not oppYees the
hire!irg In his wages. Sho must iusist
MAT the wage TorEers were not 90 many
hands, but weru living human beings, She
must teach the great doctrine OF common
brotherhood, and must take csre Lhst the
mouths Ia her pulpis were not s;opped
by gars of golt-sentiments which. OF
caurso, brought forth round after round of
app!au:e, though Id some quarters they
,suat have hit pretty hard. ri ~
DIVORCE AND THE SOCIAL VICE.
The mort delicate, and, possibly, the
most important topics were "The Pe1ils of
the Family" and "Ths Social Vice. hau.
died rcsnscsivelv .nd with coneummste
ekiil by Rev. 8. W.Diko, OF Massachusetts.
.nd by Col. Greene, OF Hartford, Conn.
ffance. It Wss shown, wac tho only Euro.
peen neslon whose birth, rats was ss low
as that OF this country, and what made
cur situation worse than hers vsa that abe
"s5 concerned abort tho mat.or while we
were not. The divorce rate ia double what
is Yea twenty yosrs ago both in America
aud Europe. In enlightened Nov Eaplan1
1000 divorces had been granted in a single
year and nearly SO many hnd blsckenad
me record Of the State Of Ohio in year
,.,HMofnonlsn, it WAC contendod, did not
threaten hali tho mischief that our easy d.
Cofce lave did. Touching the rccial vice,
Vol. Gfesne contendeu that what woe
dono openly by these lost to shame vas
but snail part, and net the vilest psrt
elther, OF what WAS going on. Amongst
the corrnpting ipauenceD at work u pom
children and youth he mentioned, frss in
the order Of t:me, tho promiecuous aasoci.
alton Ct the good and bad il the public
schoo!a, the work too often begun thore
being supplemented afterws1do BY the
novel, the sensational newspaper, the sa-
loon, snd tho loose moral code prevailing
in society. His plea was for general
support oithe White Orocs Movement "a
an attitude 10 this social yiIsnees. in
which he vas ably, supported by DR..
Thomae, an eminent physician Of Baltj-
mora. > DE-. Thomas held that there were
more pure msn in America than in suy
other nation, and that the great need was
lof those believing in purity to PCT them
selvea On record. a a, - rs
10 CATHOLICISM AND TEMPERANCE,
Tho dividing wedges Of this otherwise
harmonious copferanca hava ahnan To,,-